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Jack Greenfield

Keith S Hamilton

David Searle Noble

Ramesh Rajagopal

Ian M Bavey

Michael S Hayton

Steven T Antoch

David N Trowbridge

Vinay Bharadwaj

George Mathew

Niall L McDonnell

Andrew Willis Bliven, Ii

Frank Fan

Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for providing an integration framework that enables tools to be integrated. The integration framework enables tools participating in the framework to be encapsulated in a manner that hides their implementations, thereby preventing them from taking deep dependencies on each other. The integration framework also enables the tools participating in the framework to carry formal type definitions called service and data contracts that describe the public behaviors they offer. The integration framework also provides support for migrating integration logic from tools into pluggable commands to further reduce coupling between the tools.

Integrating loosely coupled tools using contracts and references

The performing of actions on an object graph that contains multiple objects. The objects are categorized into partitions. Taking into account the partitions, a particular non-final action performed on the object graph may be undone without necessarily first undoing all of the one or more subsequent actions. Instead, if the subsequent actions involved objects of different partitions than the objects that were affected by the particular action desired to be undone, the particular action may be undone without undoing the subsequent actions.

Partition-based undo of partitioned object graph

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